How Slack Raised the Bar on the Modern IPO ProcessFinding Workiva Brandon and Slack Director of Corporate Accounting Tyler Herb had worked with financial printers in previous roles at other companies. Collaborators had to wait their turn to work on documents, and back-and-forth reviews and edits to hard copies were painful and prone to error. “It felt like an archaic process, even back then,” Tyler said. When the Workiva team suggested using the Workiva connected reporting and compliance platform to produce Slack’s S-1, it seemed like a natural fit. Slack was the in- house chat app at Workiva, and Workiva was keen to have its services team use it to stay in touch with the working group. Meanwhile, Slack’s outside counsel and external auditor were already familiar with using

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